Tuesday, December 31, 2013

While CES 2014 starts next Tuesday, rumors speak of a partnership between Audi and Apple. What’s this?

is next Tuesday in Las Vegas, which opens the high mass of electronics: the Consumer Electronic Show 2014 (CES 2014). One of the highlights of this event could be all offers to be made around the auto industry.

Moreover, the Wall Street Journal announced that CES 2014 will be an opportunity for Audi and Apple to formalize a partnership. But what will he? While BMW, Daimler-Mercedes-Benz and Honda had joined the “iOS in the Car” launched by Apple in June this program is what Audi will do the same? A priori not …

According to the Wall Street Journal, the partnership between Audi and Apple aims to develop multimedia equipment for automobiles based on Android! The newspaper announced that the goal would be to allow drivers of the German mark to access the same services and applications on an Android device.

Technology: According to the Wall Street Journal, the manufacturer Audi and Google are preparing to formalize a partnership to develop a multimedia device for automobiles based on Android

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The Consumer Electronic Show (CES), which starts next Tuesday will include many ads in the automotive field. A new land where Apple and Google will find themselves once again. According to information from the Wall Street Journal, Audi and Google should formalize a partnership that aims to use Android as the basis for multimedia embedded cars of the German mark systems. According to the article, the goal is to allow drivers and passengers to access the same services and applications on an Android device.

In June, Apple announced its “iOS in the Car” already adopted by BMW, Daimler-Mercedes-Benz and Honda. CES 2014 will be also the occasion for several manufacturers of semiconductor announce plans around ARM processors dedicated to the automobile. (Eureka Press)

About 1000 people were selected by the Dutch foundation March One, the initiator of the space project. After a rigorous selection process, only 24 of them walk the floor of the red planet.

establish a human colony on Mars. This is the crazy bet a Dutch foundation called One in March, which comes pre-select candidates in 1058 a total of 202,000 to integrate its program. After a rigorous selection process, only 24 of them will have the chance to tread the Marsian soil.

Originally

107 different countries, the majority of applicants is in the age group of 25-35 years. 586 472 are men against women. With 297 preselected, the United States is the most represented, followed by Canada (75) India (62) and Russia (52). France has it 22 candidates.

Cost of Adventure: $ 6 billion

Launched in 2012 by Dutch engineer Lansdrop Netherlands, the Mars Project One should take place over a dozen years. After the selection phase of the future “land ambassadors”, the delivery of equipment required for the construction of stations expected to begin in 2022. The journey of an advance team to the red planet is scheduled for April 2024, with a scheduled arrival 210 days later. A second group should join the first year after that for a permanent residence.

The cost of this expedition amounted to $ 6 billion, should be funded, according to the management, operating through a media event. The scheme is simple: make this adventure the subject of a reality TV show, in which the public would have ample opportunity to interact with travelers. But designers have remained very discrete time on the progress of funding and overcoming technical constraints posed by a project of this magnitude. At this stage, no one can say with certainty that the journey to Mars will take place.

While automakers were betting on far-vehicle information systems developed for their own use by OEMs, they now tend to approach the big names in electronics. After the announced integration of iOS in some cars, including BMW, it is the turn Google to prepare an ad on field with Audi this time.

the upcoming CES 2014 (the Consumer Electronics Show to be held from 7 to 10 January 2014), Audi and Google should indeed reveal a alliance to move forward together automotive connected . In fact, the two firms seek to combine their expertise to develop an embedded system oriented multimedia information and entertainment (Internet navigation, mapping, voice recognition …).

Google would build on its platform Android to move in this direction, according to the Wall Street Journal. Knowing that Google also advanced solo offering his own vehicle fully automatic which eliminates the need of a driver. A third protagonist would join this initiative to develop future automotive Nvidia (designer of graphics cards that extends its business to mobile terminals)

.The connected car

takes place increasingly important within the ESC. In the previous edition of this vast mass IT, Audi presented a device to park a vehicle in a parking lot while the driver was not driving. The German manufacturer Google services already operated through Audi Connect system (eg on board the A3): voice commands, Wi-Fi and 3G, Google mapping services, access to social networks …

Recall that in the last edition of LeWeb, Renault introduced the concept of a “robot car” (see video below). Our colleagues Gizmodo.fr, for their part, recently attended a demo of new services connected the French manufacturer Peugeot for its new model 308 (Peugeot Connect Apps).

Overall, automakers and technology solution providers are moving in two directions: the integration of smartphones in the onboard computer and the design of proprietary platforms.

In addition:

– Next Two: Renault ahead of the track of the car robot

– Peter Sigrist, Visteon “in the car, embedded systems must be more open”

Monday, December 30, 2013

Interception of computer supplies, taking advantage of weaknesses in hardware and even use the report form error Microsof: Here are some of the methods available to a special unit of the National Security Agency (NSA), called “access operations to measure” (Tailored Access Operations, TAO) to access the data in computers covered by the agency. This is what reveals the Spiegel , based on documents submitted by Edward Snowden.

TAO cell appeared in 1997 and consists of highly skilled hackers who “access the inaccessible” , according to the description given by the NSA in internal documents. Also according to the documents consulted by the Spiegel , this unit has contributed to the collection “some of the most important that our country [the United States] has seen information.”

MANY COMPUTER TOOLS AVAILABLE

In the long catalog, extracts of which are published by the German weekly, succeed various nicknames provided tools to spy on all the details of the digital life of an average user. One called “Quantum Insert” to enter in targeted redirecting users to fake websites to unwittingly install spyware computers. It is this technique that permits access to the particular network manager a submarine cable and used by sixteen companies, Orange.

tools Feed through, Gourmet Jet plow through and allow the insertion of “implants” in servers from different manufacturers, including Dell and Cisco or Huawei Chinese Americans. Ironically, this manufacturer was suspected to monitor users on behalf of the Chinese authorities. Joined by Spiegel , the companies manufacturing the equipment to which the unit can access said they did not have knowledge of these elements. Cisco said not work with “any government to change its products,” .

Dropout Jeep is a spy equipment that can recover the information contained in Apple iPhones. Monkey calendar is it a software that sends SMS geolocation phone on which it is installed. Rage master in turn captures and transmits the information transmitted to the computer screen through the VGA cable. The catalog that German weekly had access dates from 2008, but the team explained that they are working on new tools adapting to new devices on the market.

anecdotal but telling is that of recovering the error reports sent by the operator of Windows system engineers to Microsoft operation. These reports provide specific details about the machine and can be used, as mentioned in the team, allowing “to collect detailed information and better access to your computer” .

INTERCEPTION OF PARCEL

Der Spiegel also said that some computer shipments are intercepted and redirected to the secret workshops of the TAO, where agents carefully open the package and put in place spies in the machine. This technique allows in particular to target people using new computers and they never connect to the Internet to prevent leakage. This is especially how to work Glenn Greenwald, the reporter contacted Edward Snowden.

In a statement

Spiegel , the agency confirmed the existence of this brief team “The CAT is a unique national asset, front line to allow the NSA defend the nation and its allies. His work focuses on the use of networks to support intelligence gathering abroad. “

telecom operator Orange announced Monday it would be a civil party in the case of piracy by the U.S. intelligence agency NSA a major submarine cable it uses along with 15 other companies. Edward Snowden , former consultant to the NSA, has once again hit with new revelations relayed by the German magazine Der Spiegel: according to him, a special division of the agency hacked the computer network a consortium of companies using the submarine telecommunications cable Sea-Me-We 4. This fiber optic cable connects Asia and Oceania to Europe via the Middle East until Marseille, where it is connected to the Orange network. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA has hacked in February 2013 the computer network of the 16 companies (Orange) by introducing a virus allowing it to retrieve information about data flows – such as location, date, or persons involved in a given conversation. “Orange has no involvement in such maneuvers, made entirely without his knowledge and concerning a priori equipment (cable SMW4) which it is not user manager,” said the operator in a statement sent to AFP . “If there has been piracy, it could not be done via the Orange network, which has not experienced this type of attack,” he says. L operator “however all possibilities of legal action in the event of Orange data carried by the cable in question had been an attempt to intercept and will particularly be formed in the coming days plaintiff , “he announces. Orange “reiterates its commitment to the protection of the secrecy of correspondence, which can be removed only under clearly defined conditions and limited by law, no institution or state can overcome this respect,” the statement said. For several months, Edward Snowden revelations have lifted the veil on the extent of Prism, American program spy all-out to several European countries, EU institutions or even the system internal video-conference of the UN.

According to these sources, the NSA would be introduced in the network, and accessing the information carried by the submarine cable SEA-ME-WE 4, which connects Asia and Oceania to Europe via the Middle East and to Marseilles, where it is connected to the Orange network. By the cable passes a data deluge.

French telecommunications operator announced Monday it would be a civil party “in the coming days.” “Orange has no involvement in such maneuvers performed entirely without his knowledge and concerning a priori equipment [SMW4 cable] which is not user manager “, said the operator.

“If piracy there has been, it could not be done via the Orange network, which has seen no such attack” , he says . The operator “however all possibilities of legal action in the event of Orange data carried by the cable in question would have been an attempt to intercept” , a he announced.

250 MARINE CABLES IN THE WORLD

Such tracks can collect large amounts of metadata, that is to say, not the content of a conversation, but for example the date, place and participants. A priori harmless, they are actually quite revealing habits and a user relations.

Of the approximately two hundred and fifty submarine cables crisscrossing the globe, twenty landed on the French coast and connects Europe to the rest of the global network. Some cables are particularly strategic as the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE). Co-owned by France Telecom-Orange and its subsidiaries with twelve other companies or governments, he completed Penmarch (Finistère) a distance of more than 17 000 km in the Atlantic, “plugging” in passing a dozen countries in West Africa .

Read: The submarine cables, keystone of the cyber

Read (subscriber edition): La France at the heart of the surveillance of submarine cables

“OTHER OPERATIONS PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE”

According to the document provided by Edward Snowden cited by Mediapart, February 13, 2013 the Office of Tailored Access Operation (the “office appropriate access operations”) “managed to collect information management systems of the submarine cable SEA-ME-WE “.

agency brags “had access to the site management of the consortium and have collected network information level 2, which shows the mapping of a significant part of the network” . And the agency to clarify “Other operations are planned for the future to gather more information on this and other cable systems .”

The technique used for this attack, called “Quantum Insert” (or “quantum insertion”) has already been used by the British electronic information agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), to infiltrate computers Belgacom as well as the headquarters of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. A technique that consists in redirecting discreetly company employees to fake websites to install unwittingly spyware on their machine.

Worse a backdoor on the most popular services online? Infiltrate the Internet itself: the NSA did

He might consider having “mission accomplished” , Edward Snowden continues to deliver disturbing revelations about the NSA. Today is the German newspaper Der Spiegel that reveals the existence of a surveillance operation on a large scale, which led the U.S. security agency to infiltrate an entire telecommunications network linking a multitude of countries France to Singapore.

NSA specifically granted access to the submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4 routing telephone and computer communications in 14 countries, some of which are considered strategic, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE Arab Emirates and Pakistan. It is the result of a consortium of six companies including the former France Telecom, Orange.

Identify targets and automatically attack

belongsAmerican intelligence agency can intercept and identification of data (email addresses in cookies , IP addresses) and identify its targets. Then it can attack automatically by redirecting infected copies of visited websites, specially adapted for faults detected previously.

This is also a unit called TAO for Tailored Access Operations or access operations on measurement, we must exploit this vile. In a document dated 13 February 2013, CAT was pleased to have “managed to collect management information system for the submarine cable SEA-Me-We” , and thus have “gained access to the site management consortium and collected network information level 2″ .

Source: Wikipedia

Earlier large

The above methods, called Quantuminsert and Foxacid are those already allowed the NSA

to infiltrate the network of the National Security Committee of Mexico, including access to the SCADA system of power plants,

to British intelligence to infiltrate the network of the Belgian operator Belgacom

but also and especially to American and Israeli intelligence to implement Stuxnet, which was allowed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program.

But that the world is not upset, NSA stated in early 2013 that “other operations were planned to collect more information about this submarine cable and other cables” .

Orange disclaims any involvement

Orange was quick to respond to these new revelations. The operator told AFP it “would be a civil party in the coming days” and it “reserved all possible legal action in the event Orange where data have been an interception attempt “.

But the operator ensures that has” no involvement in maneuvers (NSA) , made entirely without his knowledge and concerning a priori equipment that is not user manager. “

After smartphones, tablets and television, Google could officially launch its mobile OS Android on new devices and in particular within the next connected cars.

Currently, many manufacturers already offer an onboard computer equipped with Android system. So Volvo has approached the editor Neonode while Saab unveiled IQon based on Android. The manufacturer Ford is increasing its applications while Mercedes-Benz intends to adopt Google’s OS sometime in 2014. Audi, however, could be the first company to benefit from a system developed by Google directly.

The Wall Street Journal reports in fact that during the Consumer Electronics Show to be held next week in Las Vegas, and Google Audi jointly present the fruits of their labors. Specifically, Audi and Google would position at the head of these efforts and would invite other car manufacturers to adopt their ecosystem. The idea is to provide an OS but also a reference platform in partnership with NVIDIA. Among the features offered include access to music, GPS and various applications and services.

Recall that Apple’s side also trying to get involved in cars and in particular via a command to enable the voice assistant Siri. Honda also makes use of new models of its Civic to read or dictate text messages or emails. Today QNX microkernel held by BlackBerry remains the main platform for several onboard computers of some cars Audi, BMW, Chrysler, General Motors, Hyundai, Land Rover or Porsche. The situation does change in 2014

Also read: Autos connected: focus on embedded OS and apps QNX: System shipped to BlackBerry 10

Sunday, December 29, 2013

win a commercial battle, nothing beats a good trial. This is the strategy adopted by Apple in the United States to block the road to Samsung. The firm at the apple has asked Lucy Koh, Judge Northern District of California (SanJose) prohibit the sale of 20 Samsung devices and tablets, including the Galaxy S or Galaxy Tab 10.1. Even if this is old devices from Korean, withdrawn from sale due to various court decisions, Apple has not always been successful. Thus, the judge Lucy Koh had already rejected some requests prohibition made by Apple. Getting a new decision in its meaning, the inventor of the iPhone prepares for the future. Thus, an alternative procedure, which we know the outcome in March, was opened to prohibit newer models, like the Galaxy SIII. So Apple wants to demonstrate that these models are only 20 avatars products which it seeks a permanent ban.

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“As Samsung frequently puts new models on the market (…) prohibition is important to bring Apple support necessary to combat future crime Samsung” said the firm at the apple. Currently, the amount of litigation due by Samsung in Apple is $ 930 million. Here two years now that Apple is conducting a guerrilla war against Samsung thank you, that did not stop the irresistible rise of Korean. Nothing in smartphones, Samsung held the third quarter 32% market share globally, ahead of Apple (12.1%), according to Gartner. If Samsung has maintained its position, Apple lost almost 2 points in one year. Moreover, in its last fiscal year, despite rising sales, the group recorded the first decline in earnings for eleven years. Of the total mobile phone market, Korean is also number one with 25.7% market share, ahead of Nokia (13.8%) and Apple (6.7%).

In August, the group of hackers Gibson Security , based in Australia, called the publisher of the application Snapchat to fix two security vulnerabilities for creating fake accounts en masse and unauthorized access to telephone users.

alert remains unanswered: vulnerabilities in question are still present in the latest version of the service (4.1.01) on iOS and Android. They may soon be actively exploited because of their publication, on Christmas day, the members of Gibson Security, frustrated that their warning had not been taken into account.

first feat ‘, called find_friends is to use the API Snapchat to write a program that will generate a list of phone numbers, then browse by automatically associating names users of the application. Leased $ 10 per month server enough to go, twenty hours, the entire basis of registered 8 million accounts at last count in June 2013. Of personal data could result from minted tens of dollars on the black market profiles.

another vulnerability threatens more indirectly users: it facilitates the creation of massive fake accounts ( Bulk Registration ), mainly to spread spam. Here now documented by Gibson Security, which evokes ZDNet.com “ a common technical computer security [...] to force the hand of an editor so that it improves its management of bugs and security “.

The challenge is even greater for Snapchat, who has made one of its confidentiality warhorses. The young company – founded in 2011 by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel – riding the global awareness related to revelations about the eavesdropping program conducted by the United States. It provides not archive any conversation and highlights the convenience of its service, designed to send images and videos that disappear after a short period of time. The caller receives an alert to the arrival of a new message and when it starts playing, it features one, two, three or ten seconds before said message self-destructs.

concept has attracted a rather young audience, mostly composed of students who are now traded over 400 million files per month. Ecosystem now officially exposed to two security vulnerabilities … among others: in January, a user had found that he could find in its file explorer, videos supposedly ‘deleted’ if logs on the phone to a PC or Mac. More recently, in October, a SnapHack application to save the content without time limit appeared on the App Store Apple .

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This is a fun application for the youngest, that offers 12 days of gifts in Apple: Toca House, which caters for children 2 years and older. “ Five friends need you! Help them to take care of household chores in a nice house. Get ready to do the washing, ironing, sweeping or gardening … A total of 19 mini-games super fun! “

But we must of course have an Apple device to enjoy this free download, and most importantly, have installed the dedicated application that alerts you when a new gift is available. Yesterday, for example, it was comics in digital format, Walking Dead, which was proposed. But the operation is not every time valid for 24 hours.

Returning one second Toca House is a interactive game that introduces children to various household tasks they have generally not the opportunity to participate.

Now they can clean the floors, wash the tiles, post letters or sweep … and besides, it’s funny! Let yourself be captivated by a series of mini-games that take place in a nice house where five colorful characters inhabit. At nightfall, we must think about going to bed … but you can still have fun if you like! Otherwise, it’s the perfect time to take a break or offer another player to take over!

With a premium of $ 2.8 million, the CEO of Apple ended the year with total compensation increased slightly compared to 2012.

According to the announcement Friday by Apple in its financial documents, the successuer Steve Jobs, Tim Cook , garnered 4.25 million dollars in 2013 to head the company. This last mentioned these revenues in its preliminary proxy statement and the compensation of its executives, who received about $ 2.6 million per head.

Cook

compensation includes a base salary of $ 1.4 million, more than 53,000 dollars in profits, and a bonus of $ 2.8 million, which represents the maximum premium that Apple could it grant. His total compensation has not changed much since last year, since it was 4.2 million in 2012.

These amounts, although qu’énormes, are still dwarfed by what the company generated in 2013 (read: Q4 2013: 37.5 billion dollars for Apple CA) …

According to a document published on Friday in anticipation of the annual general meeting, Apple has paid its CEO, Tim Cook, to the tune of $ 4.25 million this year, representing an increase of almost 2% compared to 2012. Document, available on the SEC website, explains Tim Cook touched a base salary of 1.40 million dollars, 1.36 million against the previous year. Tim Cook has also received 2.8 million bonus, as in 2012, and 52,721 dollars in payments on his retirement account.

offset the year ended end of September, Apple has increased its turnover by 9% to $ 171 billion. The iPhone remains the main driver of Apple’s growth. However, the company has also accused the first decline in net income in eleven years (-11% to 37 billion). The launch this year of a new revolutionary product after the iPhone in 2007 and iPad in 2010 could restore upward trend.

legal battle between Apple and Samsung rebounds. In the United States, the Californian company has once again asked the court to ban some terminals of the South Korean group, which are no longer sold today. But for Apple, the goal is to prepare the ground for better combat current and future products of his rival.

the field of industrial property, there is no truce can confectioners between Apple and Samsung. In the midst of celebrations, the Cupertino company has revived hostilities by asking the justice to prohibit the marketing of twenty smartphones and two tablets sold by the South Korean manufacturer, on the grounds that they violate the devices U.S. Patent group.

“Since Samsung regularly puts new products on the market, an injunction is important to provide the necessary assistance to Apple to combat future violations via Samsung products that are merely different in appearance those who have already been tried in breach , “said Apple, which targets here terminals that are no longer available today.

Samsung and Apple are engaged in a trade war without thank you for a few years, and it has since spread far beyond the legal field. Indeed, each accusing the other of violating its intellectual property. Many lawsuits have been filed across the world, including the highlight was the legal victory of Apple in 2012 as part of a U.S. trial.

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Technology: The European Parliament announced that they have agreed about a binding text (even for Apple) to be voted on in 2014 and implemented in 2017 at best …

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This is a real sea serpent as only Europe can create. In 2009, the European Commission signed an agreement with major mobile phone manufacturers.

latter undertook to finally provide universal charger from 2010 to avoid ergonomic and ecological disaster with very heterogeneous products.

In 2010, there were thirty outstanding worse, within the same brand, different chargers were found depending on the model. Given the turnover rate of the terminals, these chargers often ended their lives in the trash or clutter drawers vennaient users.

In 2011, 90% of mobile phones sold in the European market are sold with this universal charger, considered Europe.

Commendable but hypothetical

successful bet? Not quite. If the micro-USB format is somewhat generalized, each manufacturer continues to provide heterogeneous and Apple chargers, truck market continues to play solo with its proprietary format (although it offers an adapter to charge high price of course).

a few months ago, the Internal Market Committee of Parliament voted unanimously a resolution favorable to the creation of a law requiring companies manufacture a universal charger.

One objective is thus to reduce electronic waste. “We urge Member States and manufacturers to introduce a universal charger to end the chaos cable for mobile phones and tablets,” said the representative of the Commission, Barbara Weiler.

Today, the European Parliament goes further with the announcement of an agreement requiring all manufacturers of smartphones and tablets use a common model charger.

Initiative again commendable but a new hypothetical time. Because the text must first must first be adopted by Member States in March and they will then have two years to transpose the legislation. Manufacturers will then have one year to adapt. Which brings us to 2017 …

Meanwhile, developments in connectivity (especially around USB) can still be offered by the manufacturers. In short, the universal charger as desired by Europe may again remain a sweet dream.

European authorities say again trying to impose a single model of charger smartphone and tablet. While most of today’s chargers are compatible, Apple stands apart.

was once a charger capable of running on all phones and all tablets, regardless of brand or operating system. This universal charger could last for years, and would work with all new smartphones arriving home. Family piling cartons only compatible connectors with old Apple and Samsung phones are no longer an ugly memory. Forgetting the charger on holiday would not be a drama. And we no longer cry in the evening: “Who has a Nokia charger here? I have more battery!. “

sweet dream shared by many consumers, was that of the European Commission in 2009. Angry face ecological disaster engendered millions of chargers trashed soon renewed the phone, she had signed an agreement with 17 manufacturers and mobile operators to implement a universal charger in 2010. It would be based on the micro-USB connector present on many smartphones, and would automatically go into standby when the phone charged. This model would spread in every home, and builders would not be obliged to sell a charger with their phone or tablet.

Apple keeps its own connection

Four years later, the will of Brussels is partially met. The majority of phones and tablets on sale in Europe use micro-USB chargers compatible with each other: the charger Samsung Galaxy S4 gentleman may charge the Nexus 7 tablet ma’am. But however the devices continue to be sold with a dedicated charger, which does not solve the environmental problem.

The connector “Lightning to micro USB”

Another downside, a manufacturer of size does not comply with the rules of the game: Apple. It swears by Lightning charger, which works with its latest devices. To comply with European legislation, American offers an adapter “Lightning to micro USB” to recharge its 4th generation iPad or the iPhone 5 with a standard cable, against 19 euros. A sleight of hand that is not to the taste of Brussels, which intends to impose its universal charger Apple.

A new text passed to the European Parliament

The European Parliament has announced on December 19 reached an agreement binding all manufacturers of smartphones and tablets use a single model charger. But it will not happen tomorrow in stores. Parliament specifies that text should be adopted by all members of the European Union during a plenary session in March 2014. Member countries will then have two years to transpose these rules into their national laws. And manufacturers will have an additional year to comply with the new rules. Clearly, the universal charger will not be out until 2017, and nothing says that Apple will comply with European legislation.

Unless the arrival of the USB “Type-C”, announced earlier this month, does not change the situation. This micro-connector, which will equip the new devices from next year, will be faster and can be connected in both directions, as Apple Lightning. The charger from the firm at the apple could become the model for the future single charger.

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December 28, 2013

Committee of the European Parliament who is responsible for the internal market passed a legislative resolution unanimously calling for the creation of a universal charger is compatible with all mobile phones. From a micro-USB connector, all smartphones and tablets may have only one universal charger. One of the objectives of the commission is to reduce electronic waste. An agreement was signed in 2009 with major manufacturers who undertook to provide universal from 2010 to micro-size USB charger. But the agreement did not meet all the conditions according to the Commission.

A universal charger is expected to arrive in 2017

19 December 2013, the Commission of the European Parliament reached an agreement requiring all mobile phone manufacturers to move towards a common standard. A text will be voted on by all members in March 2014. States concerned will have two years to translate this text into their own legislation. The mobile phone manufacturers have an additional year to comply with the legislation. That is to say, universal chargers will emerge from 2017. Cupertino has kept the Lightning ports adapted its products, but provides may change and Apple will be forced to comply with the rule. Nothing says he will, unless future Chargers are close to Lightning group ports. The European authorities want to establish a universal charger for smartphones but also tablets.

Reducing E-Waste

The main argument of the Committee of the European Parliament is to reduce the number of electronic waste. Universal connectivity would reduce the number of waste by 50 000 tonnes per year. All formats, more than one billion chargers that are not used today.

Apple boss Tim Cook received a salary of $ 4.25 million this year, an increase of 2% compared to 2012, despite a decline in earnings of the brand Apple.

SEC, the stock Constable overseas has published a document detailing the remuneration of Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO for the year 2013. The head of the brand Apple has paid $ 4.25 million this year 2013, a wage increase of about 2% compared to 2012. Tim Cook earn more but his band, Apple, saw its profits decline for the first time in eleven years. Profits that could climb in 2014 with the release of new products. Tim Cook announced in his letter of year end for its employees. He said that large projects would emerge in 2014. Maybe an Apple TV or iWatch.

Tim Cook: $ 4.25 million salary this year

Tim Cook compensation breaks down as follows: an initial salary of 1.40 million in 2013 against $ 1.36 million in 2012, to which are added 2.8 million bonus and than 52,721 dollars for his retirement account which makes a total compensation for 2013 of U.S. $ 4 252 721. The iPhone remains the flagship of the brand this year. The turnover of the brand Apple was closed late September to $ 171 billion, an increase of 9% compared to the same period last year. However, net profit fell for the first time in eleven years to 37 billion, a decrease of 11%. Tim Cook announced big plans for 2014. Innovative new products that will interest the general public and probably climb to group profits. The General Meeting will be held Apple Feb. 28 live from Cupertino California.

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December 28, 2013

Committee of the European Parliament who is responsible for the internal market passed a legislative resolution unanimously calling for the creation of a universal charger is compatible with all mobile phones. From a micro-USB connector, all smartphones and tablets may have only one universal charger. One of the objectives of the commission is to reduce electronic waste. An agreement was signed in 2009 with major manufacturers who undertook to provide universal from 2010 to micro-size USB charger. But the agreement did not meet all the conditions according to the Commission.

A universal charger is expected to arrive in 2017

19 December 2013, the Commission of the European Parliament reached an agreement requiring all mobile phone manufacturers to move towards a common standard. A text will be voted on by all members in March 2014. States concerned will have two years to translate this text into their own legislation. The mobile phone manufacturers have an additional year to comply with the legislation. That is to say, universal chargers will emerge from 2017. Cupertino has kept the Lightning ports adapted its products, but provides may change and Apple will be forced to comply with the rule. Nothing says he will, unless future Chargers are close to Lightning group ports. The European authorities want to establish a universal charger for smartphones but also tablets.

Reducing E-Waste

The main argument of the Committee of the European Parliament is to reduce the number of electronic waste. Universal connectivity would reduce the number of waste by 50 000 tonnes per year. All formats, more than one billion chargers that are not used today.

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Friday, December 27, 2013

Who never found out of battery phone with a friend who did not have the correct charger? Good news: Parliament and the European Council agreed to impose a universal charger manufacturers of mobile devices. And even giant Apple will comply with the rule.

“The goal is to end the chaos of cables for phones and tablets. (…) Consumers can benefit, “said the rapporteur Barbara Weiler (S & D, DE) after successful negotiations with the Council.

The USB connector will also change

The objective of the European institutions is the reduction of unnecessary costs for consumers, but also of waste. Because this measure would also re rédui electronic waste 50,000 tons per year.

far, no charger model was chosen. Many manufacturers have already developed not with the micro-USB cable, but there are exceptions to the rule. As Apple and Lightning connector. The USB connector will, in turn, change by the end of 2014 and approaching the … Apple.

All these details will be discussed by Member States at a plenary meeting in March. The interim agreement will be formally adopted by all Member States well as the Committee on the Internal Market. Once this directive passed, manufacturers such as Apple, Nokia and Samsung will then be obliged by law to provide a common charger battery.

To realize its promise to make 150 euros in savings per year on the fixed Internet in 2014, Bouygues Telecom could against all odds make an offer based on 4G. Last Friday

Martin Bouygues declared war Xavier Niel in the fixed Internet, promising a saving of 150 euros / year in 2014. To do this, the group’s CEO says that Bouygues Telecom will “a real break with innovative technology and services” .

This technological breakthrough could be a fixed supply of Internet based not on ADSL, cable or fiber but on 4G. This is at least the prognosis Crédit Mutuel – CIC, relayed by Boursier.com website “We think it will provide an access to Internet and fixed telephony services (without TV services) using mobile network which is far from being saturated. “The idea is not so crazy. Firstly because Bouygues has little leeway in the fixed “since it must hire the Orange network and Numericable” , as recalled by CM-CIC. Some telecommunications experts also believe that Bouygues Telecom can offer an even cheaper than B & You.

Secondly because it would take little risk ADSL, given “the little success of low cost offers existing “.

thirdly because he has already prepared the ground. Bouygues Telecom has to start from an experiment a few months to replace the ADSL 4G. And offers already offers mobile Internet with comfortable volumes, up to 32 GB / month, the volume traded by average British internet (we do not have information for France). In reality there are plenty more to these offers outfit suited to a fixed installation, with a roof antenna particular.

Apple has paid its CEO, Tim Cook, to the tune of $ 4.25 million this year, an increase of almost 2% compared to 2012, according to a document released Friday in anticipation of the Annual General Meeting.

document available on the website of the U.S. stock Constable (SEC), explains that Mr. Cook received a base salary of 1.40 million dollars, 1.36 million after the previous year . Are added $ 2.8 million bonus, as in 2012, and 52 721 dollars payments on his retirement account.

On the lagged year ended in late September, the group increased its sales business from 9% to $ 171 billion, the iPhone still the engine of growth of Apple. But the company also accused the first decline in net income in eleven years (-11% to 37 billion). However analysts hope to finally see the launch this year of a new revolutionary product after the iPhone 2007 and the iPad in 2010.

The Annual General Meeting will be held on February 28 from 17:00 GMT in Cupertino, Apple’s headquarters in California.

45 years later, NASA recreates the “Sunrise Earth” Apollo 8 mission

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at 10:15 Charles Martin

This is a nice Christmas gift Nasa has offered space enthusiasts, because this week, the U.S. Agency celebrated in its own way the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 8 , whose flight was marked by an extraordinary photo, December 24, 1968 … At the time, for the first time, this mission has made a transfer orbit around the moon, having placed in orbit around the Earth. The astronauts were able to discover the hidden face of the moon, but during this mission, William Anders also took one of the most striking pictures of History: the “Sunrise Earth” (“Earthrise” in English).

>>>’s Mars Express probe will graze Phobos, the largest moon of Mars

Nearly half a century later, NASA has decided to revive the Apollo 8 Mission through a small 7 minute video that traces the orbit of the spacecraft. It is using the statements of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as well as images and vintage sounds that Nasa has reconstructed the course of events, as you can see above.

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